Financial markets and institutions are mighty unstable no matter where you look these days. Europe, America, China, Australia. Where are you supposed to go to invest your money?
February 11th, 2012 | Nickolai Hubble | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "asx"
What’s the Plan with War With Iran?
In the face of economic meltdown, pick a fight… A nice list of reasons to worry about a war with Iran was sent to our inbox on Tuesday…
January 21st, 2012 | Nickolai Hubble | 6 comments | Continued
Is the Australian Stock Market ‘A Class Joint’ For Your Money?
You’d think the Australian stock market would be doing rather well. But how is the Aussie index ASX200 really holding up?
January 14th, 2012 | Nickolai Hubble | 2 comments | Continued
Australia Forgets the Little People
How about that? Contrary to our gloomy disposition yesterday, the stock market has taken off like a rocket this morning. The material sector is up 2.9% today alone. It was the worst performing sector in Australia on the ASX in 2011, down 25% thanks to lower commodity prices.
January 4th, 2012 | Dan Denning | 7 comments | Continued
Is Australia’s Economy Decoupled From the Rest of the World?
The world’s best economy, with the world’s best banks, run by the world’s best treasurer, just posted a world-beating economic growth rate of 1 per cent for the three months to September. The Australian economy is, apparently, on fire, growing at an annual rate of nearly 5 per cent over the past six months.
This raises a few questions…
December 8th, 2011 | Greg Canavan | 2 comments | Continued
It’s The Only Play Central Banks Know
The credit cycle has turned. The world is in a deleveraging phase. But central banks are still trying to reverse the process and provide more credit to households and businesses? They really only have one play in the playbook.
December 1st, 2011 | Greg Canavan | 0 comments | Continued
Europe’s Credit Crisis is China’s Trading Problem
Europe isn’t a huge customer of raw commodities. But China is Europe’s largest trading partner. So there is a knock-on effect…somewhere down the line.
November 29th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
The Stock Market’s Law of Unintended Consequences
When it comes to the stock market you’re usually right until you’re wrong. Winning streaks are rare. But Slipstream Trader Murray Dawes has been on fire recently. Murray’s been persistently bearish, even as each false rally has sucked more investors in. He’s been calling this downdraft correctly for months.
November 24th, 2011 | The Daily Reckoning | 2 comments | Continued
The Market Volatility Big Picture
Today, the market is up nearly 100 points (at the time of writing). Who would have thought Greek Referendum could have such an influence on the Aussie market?
But as we’ve said many times before, such market volatility is not a sign of strength – it’s a sign of extreme fragility.
November 4th, 2011 | Greg Canavan | 8 comments | Continued
Roach and His Bearish, Pessimistic Attitude
Roach was what I call a realist, but he was more commonly labelled a bear, a pessimist, and a crank. When the market was soaring to new highs, Roach spoke about his professional ostracism…
October 13th, 2009 | Greg Canavan | 1 comment | Continued
Buying and Holding a Bad Strategy if Bank Earnings Remain Unpredictable
If we’re right, households have just begun reducing their debt loads. It will take years for the leverage in the system to be wound down. See Bill’s comments about that below. If you’re buying bank stocks you’re assuming credit and debt growth will resume once this recession is over. That’s a big assumption. And probably stupid.
August 12th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
Equity Premium Will Be Replaced With a Tangible Asset Premium
Geez. Last Friday we made the case that the equity premium in stocks is going to revert to its historic mean. Remember that the equity premium is your willingness to pay more for future corporate earnings today because you believe stocks do better than bonds and cash over time.
July 27th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
Australia Presents Investors With Great Portfolio of Energy Choices
The uranium spot price is coming off a low after a big correction. But as we’ve covered in Diggers and Drillers, the demand for nuclear fuel from global utilities is on the rise. Australia – with over 30% of the world’s proven uranium reserves – is in the pole position (side by side with Kazakhstan, arguably) to provide the world with what it needs.
July 21st, 2009 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
The Public Still Buys Stocks but the Love is Gone
According to the Australian Share Ownership Study by the ASX, overall share ownership among Australians dropped to 6.7 million in 2008, or just 41%. That was down from 46% ownership near the top of the market in 2006. According to Chris Zappone in The Age, “The study shows risk-wary investors saying they “they preferred blue-chip shares” amid falling confidence in the overall market.”
June 29th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
Warren Buffett Says American Economy is a Shambles
Yesterday didn’t turn out so bad after all on the ASX. Stocks finished slightly up, as did the Aussie dollar and oil. Today might be a different story, though. For starters, billionaire investor/guru/jovial-grandfatherly-figure Warren Buffett has said the American economy is a “shambles.” Buffett told CNBC that the worst of the financial crisis peaked late last year (we’re not so sure). But the economic crisis? That’s still in full flight…
June 25th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
